It's 'selfie' in Bahasa too


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Compiled by NG SI HOOI, CALVIN TAN and A. RAMAN

POPULAR tech-centric words such as “selfie”, “hashtag” and “tweet” will be making their way into Kamus Dewan, reported Kosmo!

Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) director-general Datuk Dr Awang Sariyan said these new inclusions were in line with the role of dictionaries to record words widely used by the public.

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